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Old 11-13-2012, 02:38 PM
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Well I think I finally was able to bleed the air! However, the engine will turn over but not start. The glow plugs are all brand new. The starter is only 2 years old. I also have the battery connected via jumper to another car I have for extra cranking power. I'm not sure if this car has been flooded with too much fuel in the prechambers or not due to repeated cranking attepmts with the throttle wide open. If that's the case, I don't know how to reverse that. Right now, I'm recharging the battery yet again. I'll have another shot at it shortly.

Army, I was going to set the crank to 30 degrees BTDC and use the hand pump, but as I have the fan installed and fan shroud in place I was in no mood to remove it once again. But I will keep this in mind should this happen again!

For anyone else with this problem, here's what I did: Since #3,4,5 were getting fuel from the hard line to the top of the injectors, I tightened those off. Then I cranked the engine some more. I think 4 or 5 more times and I had the battery charged again in between those Finally, something came out of #2, so I tightened it up. Still nothing out of #1, however at this point. I then decided to take the hard injector line completely off at both the injector and the pump and blew it out with compressed air to make sure there was no gunk in it. When I removed the hard line, I saw a small puddle of diesel fuel at the injection pump and fuel dripped out of the lower part of the line that was connected at the IP. That told me that at least the pump was supplying fuel, at least. I then blew out the hard line with compressed air, didn't find any obstructions (or if they were, they blew out faster than I could see!). Then I replaced the hard line, and tightened it down at the IP and only loosely connected the hard line at injector #1. After 2 attempts to crank, finally some fuel dribbled out! Then I tightened down the hard line connection at injector #1.
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